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...ambiguous. Does it mean "some of the territories" or "all of the territories"? In some ways it was best not to ask, since the phrasing was palatable to Israel and its allies only under the former interpretation and to concerned Arab states and their allies only under the latter. Unfortunately, for 40 years partisans have been debating the semantics of Resolution 242, and the Israeli-Arab conflict remains unresolved, to put it mildly...
...those of us in the latter group-- consigned to coach, bereft of Flash Pass, too poor or proper to pay a placeholder --what do we do? We do what Vladimir and Estragon did in Waiting for Godot: "We wait. We are bored...
...does the argument completely hold that unlimited re-election for Hugo would somehow create a destabilizing trend in Latin America. A chronic succession of caudillos, dictators and other strongmen in the region's history did lead it to embrace the one-term presidential limit for much of the latter 20th century. But in the past decade, five major South American countries, including the biggest, Brazil, have changed their constitutions to allow re-election; and one of them, Colombia, may even permit a third term...
...Giving a corporation the license to run a region is very different from giving it the option to run for office,” he said. “In the latter case, they remain accountable to the voters, not just the bottom line...
...chic, bon genre types clumped together around bottles of expensive vodka and champagne, the firemen opened their locales to a rather eclectic crowd. The bouncers did not check for fancy shoes and good looks, but for lack of weapons or alcohol (luckily we made sure to dispose of the latter beforehand). People of different generations—children under 12 and creepy old men alike could enter this late night affair for free—and different backgrounds blended and danced together under the stars in the 4th arrondissement until four a.m., as France celebrated that time, 218 years...